www.tjprc.org editor@tjprc.org IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS FOR VIETNAMESE TEACHERS: STUDIES ON SINGAPORE’S EXPERIENCE BUI MINH DUC, NGUYEN NGOC TU, DAO THI VIET ANH & HOANG THI KIM HUYEN Ha Noi Pedagogical University, Vietnam ABSTRACT The quality of a nation’s education and human resources depend much on its teaching workforce. Hence, training a teacher with adequate competencies is playing a critical role for country’s development. Recently, teacher's professional competencies and teacher's professional development have been receiving much attention. In seeking for orientation and innovations in teacher training process with the aim of developing professional competencies, studying and analyzing experiences from other countries can be seen as an important starting point. This paper presents the core competencies of Singaporean teachers, along with some analysis and evaluation for the Grad and in-service teacher competencies framework. Thereby, the authors would like to bring a reference point of view for the development of teacher professional standards in Vietnam, as well as for the training and retraining of teachers today and the next few years, especially for the education renovation after 2015. KEYWORDS: Education, Teacher, Renovation & Development Received: Mar 14, 2017; Accepted: Mar 30, 2017; Published: Apr 13, 2017; Paper Id.: IJESRAPR201717 INTRODUCTION Among the factors that ensure the quality of education and quality of human resources for the development of a country, the quality of its teachers has been considered as a key factor that plays a decisive role [1]. From theory to practice, from the East to the West, it is showed that the developments of the curriculum, textbooks, teaching conditions... are hard to promote the efficiency, or even useless, if the quality of teachers is weak or is not taken into account [3]. Thus, for many countries around the world, teachers and teacher quality appear in the education development strategies with great attention and to be considered as the key factor for the success of education and country development [6]. To achieve the above-mentioned ideas, besides incentives for teachers, investment in developing educational institutions, teacher training..., a system of standards for teaching profession, or teachers’ competencies standards, needs to be developed [11]. In fact, teachers’ competencies standards have been developed and completed in many countries, such as Singapore, Australia, United State … It could be said that, for the first time after decades, by professional standards, teachers and educational institutions already have the basement for cultivating and expertise. This is a goal to strive for, a measure for managers and teachers to evaluate and self-evaluate. This also is a significant step forward in education science, in training and retraining of teachers. In accordance with this trend, the professional standards for Vietnamese teachers in junior and senior schools has been developed and issued. However, in the 21 st century landscape, education must focus on nurturing the whole child – morally, intellectually, physically, socially and aesthetically. Students need to acquire new Original Article International Journal of Educational Science and Research (IJESR) ISSN(P): 2249-6947; ISSN(E): 2249-8052 Vol. 7, Issue 2, Apr 2017, 149-154 © TJPRC Pvt Ltd.